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Lady Agnes - B&W

Taken in Galveston from the Houston pilot boat. The shrimpboat docks are across from the pilot boat docks.
LARGE

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Uploaded on Nov 2, 2009

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On The Bow With A Handfull

The old single screw tug on the bow of the ship is made up with three lines. The long line from the stern of the tug to the deck of the ship is just to keep the tug from getting wrapped around the bow when the ship backs into the berth. A twin screw tug can use one engine against the other to stay in working position. A tractor tug can just run sideways to stay in position.

This kind of makeup is called different things around the world. The long line from the stern is usually called just that, the stern line, but I've also heard it called a "lazy line". In Houston we call the arrangement a "handful" as in "Mars, you'll be up on the starboard bow with a handful."

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Uploaded on Nov 1, 2009

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Reflections

Ever have that feeling that someone is looking over your shoulder? LARGE

Taken on the Houston Ship Channel for my Flickr friend OldVidhead who used to take some splindid reflection shots when the mook struck him.

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Uploaded on Oct 30, 2009

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Little Ship Stories

The way we work is that jobs are assigned to the next pilot on the list. Sometimes you get a big one, sometimes a little one. At the end of the month everyone gets an equal share though.

Guess which ship was probably the easiest job? The big one. They give you as many tugs as you want to dock them. The tugs are the best in the fleet. Everyone calls you up way in advance and offers to get out of the way and takes care to be well on their side of the channel.

On the small ship tugs are a luxury. The captain is used to going into Holeinwallia or Carjackistan where ships are apparantly pulled to the dock by teams of donkies. "Tugboatz?? You doan have dunkies in Houston??". Tows pull out right in front of you and run the channel like the mud on the banks is dynamite and your little ship is made of rubber.

That's why, when pilots tell sea stories, they're all about the little ships.

Taken in "the Crossovers" on the Houston Ship Channel. LARGE

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Uploaded on Oct 28, 2009 | Map

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Bayou City on Station

Pilot boat "Bayou City" on station in the Gulf of Mexico. SWATH pilot boat operated as a station boat by the Houston Pilots Association.

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Uploaded on Oct 24, 2009

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